Sudan: When the Guards Turned on the HouseSudan · 2023–ongoing“I close the circle with a story that has not yet found its ending. Carry it carefully; it is still being lived.”Sudan's people had done the extraordinary: in 2019 they had brought down a thirty-year ruler with marches and sit-ins and song. What they inherited was a transition guarded by two armed giants — the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, the latter grown out of the Janjaweed of Darfur.The lesson the elders kept: A political transition guarded by rival armies is a transition held hostage — and the early warning signs are visible long before the first shot.